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WHOA. HOLD the phone.
It’s going to cost more than $850,000 to move

the old George Little house to the foot of

Kalum as the foundation showpiece for a new .

“old Terrace” look?

In the best traditions of government projects
the answer is ‘yes.’ But it is also ‘no.’ .

Turns out that some of the $850,000 price tag
is for costs that don’t really exist. They’re only
in there to make things look good when local
officials begin searching for grants to help
cover the real costs.

Here’s more about that. ;

Let’s say officials are pursuing grants to
cover 50 per cent of the cost of a project. The
more costs (real, imaginary and otherwise) they
can add to the bottom Hine, the more money
they hope to receive based on that percentage
concept.

That’s the case here. More than $116,000 of
the $850,000 is for curbing, paving stones and
landscaping. It’s not directly tied to the house.
Another $260,000 is for street improvements in
and around the area to supplement the new
“old” theme. Again, not directly tied to the
house. A further $55,000 is labelled as the price
paid by the city to the home’s former owner,
the “Ksan House Society, even though only
about $2,500 in cash actually changed hands.
The rest is listed as an in-kind contribution
from the society.

What makes this all the more interesting is
that officials working on the plan candidly
admit they are in fact plumping up the costs in
order to maximize potential grants. . 1 | 7

We’d also bet that those-who will judge the
grant applications are aware of what’s going on.

For heaven’s sake. Let’s at least hope the
Olympic bid isn’t based on this kind of finan-
cing scheme. |

Biting remarks
THE ECONOMY is struggling. The Skeena
Cellulose mill is still closed. More work must
be done to develop a regional voice for regional
issues.

All that and more should provide lots for city
councillors to worry about. _

But step forward councillors David Hull and
Rich McDaniel who have decided fluoride must
no longer be added to the city water supply.

They say fluoride is not only a poison but that
it costs money — $30,000 a year to local tax-
payers. |

The two councillors have now put the issue on
the table and it could end up as a referendum
topic.

This is all well and good but, for the moment,
there are more serious things to worry about.

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FOR THE SAKE OF GLOBAL.
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Enough with the apologies already

VICTORIA — Stop apologizing
already, Mr. Campbell. 1 admit
that the street person who
stopped you to say, “hang in
there,” was good stuff, but two
press conferences is enough.

If thase press conferences
about your Hawaiian misad-
venture become a regular
daily event, you won't have
any time to run British Colum-
bia.

And where would | be then?
Have you thought of that.? I
need you to do your job, so I
can do mine.

Next time reporters bring up
the drunk-driving issue, ask
them about the last time they
got behind the wheel half-cut.
The difference, I guess is that
you (and J) got caught. I’m
sure neither of us will do it
again, but maybe you should
ask the reporters whether they
will.

As you may know, [I have
not joined the chorus calling
for your resignation, because |
see no reason for it. You aren’t

accused of influence-peddling.

You haven’t taken advant-

-. age of your office for-personal.
‘. gain: You didn’t-run crooked‘ ”

bingo garnes. Heck, you didn’t
even build fast ferries.

Mind you, nat everybody
agrees with me. [ got a call

, the other day from a truck dri-

ver in Grand Forks who said
you should lose your job.

He would, if he .were
caught driving on his own time
while under the influence.
Even if he got nabbed in Ha-

FROM:THE. CAPITAL
HUBERT BEYER

wail.

I said, “Well, the premier
doesn't drive for a living,” but
he didn’t buy that. The rules
that apply to him, should
apply to you. I told him I dis-
agree and we left it at that.

On the other hand, for every
reader whe said you should re-
Sign, there were three who
said you shouldn't.

But if you let reporters keep
harping on what you rightly
cajled a stupid mistake, you

da, so I can do my job, which
is to ride herd on you and your
government.

For instance, if you go
ahead with your plans to pri-
vatize liquor stores, I will
have your ass, editorially
speaking. Should be good for a
column or two.

Mind you, considering your
current problem, you may

want to shelve that baby for a
while and not fiddle with the
booze distribution system in
B.C. And alcohol on the ferries
is probably not an idea either
whose time has come.

I would also like ta get
back to that monster deficit
awaiting British Columbia, as
you are ushering in your new
eta of prosperity.

And someone in your gov-
ernment should explain to me
some day how a structural de-
ficit is different from a deficii.

And how about the welfare
cuts? Have you ever seen the
people who depend on wel-
fare? They usually don’t hang
around the cabinet table where
you and your colleagues de-
cide who gets the short end of
the stick.

And another thing, most
British Columbians, me inclu-
ded, benefited rather poorly
from your tax break. I figure it
at about the cost of a six-pack
of beer a week, offset about
20-fold by what you taok away
in the form of higher health
care premiums, increased de-

It’s the same sentiment that
fuels attempts to recall govern-
ment MLAs.

People want to fight the last
election over again rather than
wait for two more years and a
bit for a chance to turf your
government out. ,

I'm a little more careful in
picking my evils. To start with,
they are never politicians. I at-
tack policies and government
actions, not people.

The reason for that is very
simple: apart from one or two
politicians | have known over
the past 40 years as a reporter
and columnist, most are very
decent and hard-working
people. That, for your informa-
tion, goes for NDP politicians _
as well.

I don’t say that very often,
because every time I do, I get
hammered by my readers.

But it’s true. Most cabinet
ministers works six and seven-
day weeks. Their. personal life
is on hald as long as they are
in politics. And their only
thanks? A large segment of the
public despises them.

ductible for drugs, cancellation: --Anyway, premier, take my

servants etc.

Your main problem right
now is that everybody who
deesn’t like your government’s
policies wants your head on a
platter. Your resignation would
be construed by them as a vic-
tory for the forces of good over
evil. Such is B.C. politics, but
you knew that before you en-
tered the fray.

“We'll Take the second

MY SISTER and 1 both listen
to radio. I choose CBC. She
listens to her local station. “I
can’t win contesis on CBC,”
she says.

Over the past year or so she
has won so often, recently she
was jokingly invited by the
announcer to join the station’s
staff.

She has won twice, a Tim
Horton’s coffee mug and a
quantity of ground coffee to
brew a potful, a poinsettia
from a car dealership and en-
ough baseball caps to outfit a
league of her own.

In October, she treated her
husband to a Kenny Rogers
concert after winning two tick-
ets. Each ticket was worth $90.

Every morning, as she eats
breakfast with her husband, ti-
dies her kitchen and prepares
lunch, she shares the company
of CINB. Her radio hangs
under the dish cupboard be-
tween the sink and the range.

A 20-food cord lets her tuck
the phone under her jaw while
She stirs, if she’s waiting to
get through. CINB has four
contest phone lines which are
answered in order.

Whether the winner will be

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the first caller of the third, she
has a knack for timing her call
to win.

Besides news, farm prices,
and: weather reports, she lis-
tens for contests. We tease her
about having CINB on speed
dial.

She’s won contests where
she was asked to name one of
Santa’s reindeer, or sing a line
of a Christmas carol. To claim
the two Kenny Rogers tickets,
she sang the next line of Ro-
gers’ signature song.

The majority of contest
questions originate in the radio

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station’s promotions depart-
ment. Some questions are sup-
plied by the sponsor. Buckley’s
Mixture, for instance, “It
tastes awful, but it works,”
supply both the questions and
the prizes.

The station aims for con-
tests that will entertain most of
their listening audience, even
those without access to a
phone or who prefer merely to
listen. Phoning in takes brav-
ery. Riddles and trivia ques-
tions come mainly from the In-
ternet.

Though CJNB is a small
market station, it has always
filled a big hole in the life of
North Battleford area listeners,
many of whom are farmers.

I remember the excitement
when CINB took to the air in
1947. 1 was twelve. Until then,
our radio station had been Sas-
katoan’s CGQC, CJNB;’s ske-
letal broadcasting tower be-
came a mile marker on our in-
frequent trips to “the city.”

Every school morning I
timed my departure by the sta-
tion’s broadcasts. I had to eat
my oatmeal and toast before
the 7:30 news ended, change
into school clothes and be

~..Of dental care for retited public! fadviteand stop: apologizing.

Get baek to what. you: believe
you were elected to do, so I
can get back to what I have to
do. We'll both be better off.

Yours in politics and jour-
nalism

Hubert

Beyer can be reached at:
E-mail: hubert(@coolcom.com;
Tel (250) 381-6900; Web
http://www. hubertbeyer.com

caller.”

downstairs before the 8 a.m.
news; don jacket, boots, grab
my books and be out the door
before the weather forecast.
We lived two miles from
school. ,

When I graduated high
school and took a summer job
in North Battleford, 1 rented-a
room from a widow whose
house sat across the street from
the radio station.

The slam of the announcer’s
car door woke me before my
alarm rang. I could rise on one
elbow and peek between the
Venetian blinds ta watch him
enter his building, walk up the
stairs; and swilch on the lights
in his studio. My voyeurism
countered much of his on-air
mystique, i

Harry Decker was the -sta-
tion’s morning back then. His
voice became as familiar to
me as a favourite uncle's. Yet
when I first saw him, riding on
an exhibition float one August,
I couldn’t mesh-his in the flesh
appearance with the mental
picture I had built up from his
voice and on-air clowning,

Now Harry Decker Jr. -an-
swers the contest fines and
greets my sister's calls.

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